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Research Seminar - Colin Murray, Newcastle University

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Location: Room S2.12 Law School, Social Sciences Building

Title: “Special Status? Northern Ireland, Brexit and Human Rights”

Abstract: 'Brexit’s impact upon Northern Ireland will be distinct, and in many respects more severe, by comparison to its effects in other parts of the United Kingdom. This is in part due to Northern Ireland being the only EU/UK land border, which of itself calls for special arrangements. Northern Ireland, moreover, as a net recipient of EU funding, will have to tackle a new budget shortfall and adapt to new regulatory and funding arrangements managed by Westminster. On a longer time frame, the potential dislocating impact of the UK leaving the Single Market upon the highly integrated economies of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland could be of greater significance. And at a deeper level, the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, and subsequent developments within the Northern Ireland peace process, has been grounded upon Ireland and the United Kingdom’s shared European Union membership. This Brexit-induced upheaval comes, moreover, at a time when power sharing arrangements within Northern Ireland look barely sustainable. Various proposals have been advanced for mitigating the impact of Brexit upon Northern Ireland. These include special status for Northern Ireland within the EU and moving Ireland’s customs border to cover Northern Ireland. But in the face of the legal and political barriers to these options, another possibility lies in the nature of the trade deal concluded between the UK and the EU. The EU and Canada, for example, made reciprocal human rights commitments as part of CETA. This paper explores whether Ireland’s obligations as a co-guarantor of the human rights elements of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement could be secured by insisting upon continuing UK membership of the Council of Europe and adherence to the ECHR as a requirement of any bespoke deal between the EU and the UK'

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